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Sarah Ferris at The Hill has a story this morning about the Republican Party's "list of demands" in the event that the Supreme Court rules against the federal government in the King v. Burwell case.

I was tempted to point out the obvious terrorist/hostage theme in the headline, but instead I'm gonna just focus on one snippet from the article:

But, in the event the justices rule against ObamaCare, Democrats will offer a simpler solution — passing a bill to fix the few sentences of the statute that are under scrutiny.

If the court rules against him, President Obama’s response will be diabolically simple and highly effective. He will ask Congress to pass a one-sentence bill allowing the subsidies to flow through federal exchanges. At the same time he will offer governors a contract to convert their federal exchanges into state exchanges with a simple stroke of a pen.

In fact, I agree with everything Bobby Jindal is saying here. The difference is that he seems to think that it took some kind of strategic brilliance on his part to "reveal" the Democrats' "secret plan". Guess what, Gov. Jindal? It didn't take a genius. I'm no genius and I figured this out nearly a year ago. It's really simple, actually:

Millions of people now have healthcare coverage thanks to the Affordable Care Act

If you win your court case, millions of people will lose their healthcare coverage because of it.

For many of those people, losing their healthcare coverage will mean either financial devastation, serious illness, death or all of the above.

One other thing: You're also correct that the President (and other Democrats, if they have any sense at all) will absolutely use real world, flesh and bone, living, breathing people suffering from your ass-jackery as examples of how awful you're being.

Actions have consequences. Yes, the Democratic Party probably made a minor drafting error when they passed the ACA. However, that error could have been resolved in 5 minutes if the Republicans in Congress hadn't been so obsessed with tearing down anything enacted by Barack Obama (even a law which is pretty much your party's creation). The job of publicly elected officials, in case all of you have forgotten, is supposed to be to make life better for people, which includes not being a royal jackass at the expense of millions of people's well-being.

Instead, you chose to be unbelievably small-minded and petty by taking the entire thing to the Supreme Court...and now you're freaking out about the backlash if you win your stupid case?